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The New Metabolism

Mar 1, 2023
27:32
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Introduction
00:00 • 4min
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Primates Burn 50% of the Calories
03:42 • 2min
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Orangutans Have Slow Metabolic, Right?
05:31 • 2min
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I'm Sorry About Your Dog
07:06 • 2min
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How Do We Pay for It and Why Other Apes Can't?
08:40 • 3min
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How Do We Know What Comes First?
12:09 • 3min
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How Do We Measure Human Energy Expenditures?
14:49 • 5min
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The Body's Adapting
19:19 • 2min
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You Want to Measure Your Energy Expenditures?
21:26 • 4min
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The New Science of Metabolism
24:58 • 2min
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How do human bodies use energy? In this episode, Leakey Foundation grantee Dr. Herman Pontzer shares groundbreaking research that upends our understanding of metabolism, calories, and the history of our species. 

Origin Stories is hosted by Meredith Johnson, produced and sound designed by Ray Pang, and edited by Audrey Quinn.

Support this show and the science we talk about. leakeyfoundation.org/donate 

Links:

Burn by Herman Pontzer, PhD

Pontzer Lab

The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies

 

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